Random motion with irregular shape

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Hello,

I’m using Flash5 and was wondering if anyone knows how to create random motion of an object within an irregular shape?

I have an ob-long rectangle which ‘flares’ on each end and would like to place some graphics in random motion within this irregular shape. Kirupa has a nice tutorial on random motion, which I can follow and re-produce no problem. However, with his tut, he uses

movie_height = 150;
movie_width = 300;

But I want to specify the top, bottom, left and right edges, which are irregular. Should I create a mask and use that? or can I achieve this another way using actionscript? thanks for your help!! dave.

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You will need a mask.

The only thing Flash can change is the width/height and _xscale/_yscale.

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cool, thanks. i thought that might be the case, but not sure.